my songs sound distorted on Itunes 10.5 HELP

Same issue. AMD Athlon XP +3200. Plus it seems it locks my system up when Tune Up Companion is started.

You think they would have tested for this issue.

i'm also having this same annoying issue.

please apple fix this

Same problem since the 10.5 upgrade. Older IBM T22 laptop Win7. This should be sev1 issue for Apple.

This has been a problem since last week. There is at least one other thread about it. It appears to have something to do with AMD processors. Not a word from Apple depite forum activity and direct reports. It appears that they don't care about we few XP/AMD users. Funny how Apple suddenly moves away from reliability and excellence. My Mac devices work fine. Had to install another MP3player in XP to listen to my music. A$$h0l3s!

I wished I had read this forum prior to updating to the new version Itunes offered. I to have the same problem. Unfortunately I synced my Iphone at the same time as the upgrade and lost everything on it!!!! Now I dont have Itunes on my computer or on my Iphone, Fantastic........ :-{.

Come on apple, this needs a fix now..

Same problem here - athlon 2200xp running Win xp pro upgraded to 10.5 and tunes are tinny robotic in nature.

We need an update fast!😠

in all seriousness... last time I checked, it was called "itunes". Apple, please get back to your bread and butter and fix this problem!!!

Also having same problem, also have AMD Chip, only plays music that purchased from ITunes, my other 600 songs and radio won't play correctly

The key to all of this is that people are reporting that their streaming music, i.e. from iTunes radio stations, are also manifesting the same problem. It's easy to test. So it's not just music that was not purchased from them.

The fact that music NOT purchased from the iTunes store won't play is almost immaterial given that internet radio stations are also a problem.

If AAC format is playing but standard MP3s are not, as well as the internet radio stations, there may also be a codec issue? Y/N?

As noted I went back to iTunes 10.4. There is an archive copy at FileHippo.Com. If you downgrade you need to remove the existing 10.5, and also delete the iTunes library (.itl) file. You will loose your library contents but it is necessary as the 10.5 library will not talk to the 10.4 iTunes. The library will be re-created when you launch 10.4 and you will have to re-populate it. There is no such thing as a free lunch it seems.

I also loaded Tapin Radio for streaming for now. Actually not bad.

The original post was dated Oct 13th. It's been at least 10 days, come on guy's.

Come on Apple, lets have a response this is totally unacceptable!

I have tried everyway to log an officail ticket with them to no avail, lets keep this thread high on the dicussion board maybe someone will take an interest 😠

So glad its not just my computer! But ***** that we're ALL HAVING THIS PROBLEM...Apple needs to sort it ASAP!!!

There are quite a few Apple Support discussion threads on this topic. Try this search for "distorted" with activity in the last week and you will see many. shin_shin has identified the lack of SSE2/SSE3 on Pentium 3 and AMD processors as the possible cause for this issue in this thread.

I tried that, it doesn't work, message= I tunes can't read library because it was created by a newer version of iTunes. Im ******

Just update to latest iTunes 10.5. The issue seems to be playing back mp3 files, m4a files sound fine. I am an XP user.